Jean Bolduc

This Just In— Once again, the town is ours. The sidewalks are not slammed with wide-eyed young adults marching along with earbuds and backpacks, streaming out into the crosswalks, forcing traffic to its sloth-like crawl through the center of town.

This Just In — For the time being, I leave aside the widespread, alarming skepticism regarding the authenticity of the shooting incident at last Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. We’ve got bigger fish to fry.

This Just In — Yesterday I opened the door to my car (which had been sitting undisturbed for a day or two) and the expected cloud of ragweed pollen enveloped me. This time, for real, Spring is here.

This Just In — Raising children is complicated work. There’s an awful lot of the immediate need in the first years.

This Just In — Geno Auriemma is sorry. So sorry. The NCAA semi-final women’s game between the until-then undefeated UConn Huskies and South Carolina’s very strong Gamecocks was an unexpected, lopsided slugfest with the Gamecocks coming out on top.

This Just In — the same geniuses that gave us an overpriced, overrated former NFL coach who delivered a train wreck year of Carolina football have now brought UNC’s world class basketball program to the post-Hubert Davis era.

Now that the field of 64 is set, we can begin focusing for a little while on our community’s favorite annual distraction—our beloved Tar Heels and how far they can go in the NCAA basketball tournament.

This Just In — I yearn for something normal, so let me start out with just that — let’s beat Duke on Saturday!